deployment server

noun

A Splunk instance that acts as a centralized configuration manager, grouping together and collectively managing any number of Splunk instances. Any Splunk instance can act as a deployment server, even one that is indexing data locally. Splunk instances that are remotely configured by deployment servers are called deployment clients. A Splunk instance can be both a deployment server and client at the same time.

For more information

In the Distributed Deployment manual:

configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time